How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

kept by eddie jun 11

Replacing a failed React app with an HTML-first site using Astro doubled form completions for a monopoly utility company by prioritizing accessibility and backward compatibility.

Building a Real Blog Easily in Astro
Zell Liew outlines five essential features for a production Astro blog beyond the basic scaffold—dated filenames, excerpts, draft filtering, reverse-chronological sorting—and wraps them into a single `processFiles` function.
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How we cut build times by two-thirds by deleting our CMS
Sentry cut build times from 14 to under 4 minutes by replacing its headless CMS with Astro, Markdown files, and Claude Code skills for content management.
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A Kafkaesque Snag for U.K. Travelers: System Outage Won’t Let Them Board
A system outage in the UK's electronic travel authorization scheme is denying travelers from the US, Canada, and most European countries the ability to board planes, trains, and ferries.
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France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
France announced 2.5 million civil servants will stop using US video-conference tools like Zoom and Teams by 2027, switching to a homegrown service called Visio.
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The golden rule of Customizable Select
Safari 27's customizable select allows full visual styling of `<select>` elements without JavaScript, but requires text or accessible attributes on every option for usability, accessibility, and fallback compatibility.
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